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Compare how Nathaniel Hawthorne & Alice Walker portray the struggles of the central character to achieve fulfilment in The Scarlet Letter and The Color Purple. Both novels are a celebration of American literature and explore the morals and values of the era in which they were set. The Color Purple being written in 1950 portrays the repression of black women especially in the South. Walker manipulates the character of Celie in order to exhibit a young woman's journey through life and the trials and tribulations she faces whilst fighting the social hierarchy women were expected to accept. While Hawthorne's use of the character of Hester Prynne, an adulteress and foreigner evidences the religious oppression that Hester is forced to confront (ironically through the moral weakness of a churchman.) The Color Purple is written in epistolary form with the letters at the beginning of the novel written to God from Celie however later...

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